Do you want to start blogging?
If you are a writer, blogging is the best way to earn and make a career in WordPress blogging. It makes great sense to serve blog as an author on your site.
If you are willing to share your feelings and thoughts by writing, blogging is the best way to express yourself.
(As you know there are already many bloggers who share the content)
Don’t worry because people always want new ideas, thoughts, and feelings. they are always searching for something unique to absorb.
We are here to help you in every step to do stress-free blogging. So firstly let’s pick up a domain for you and launch your site on google.
Here is how to start
1.How to choose a domain and get it?
The first thing is you’re a writer and you as a brand choose the related category in which people can find you when searching.
Now after choosing the name where to get it? Isn’t it a hard thing to decide where to buy the domain is starting? Don’t worry you can buy the domain from Bluehost, Hostinger. You can get a (.com) domain for only $10 which is very cheap. And these website offers you hosting too so you can get hosting also.
2.Purchase the hosting plans
So after you get a domain you need storage which is called a server to store the content. For that, we need to get hosting. As I previously said that we can buy hosting from hostinger and Bluehost. For a new blog, I recommended shared hosting which is offered by many hosting companies like hostinger, Bluehost, etc. We can buy through different payment systems like PayPal, credit cards, and crypto coins like bitcoin, Litecoin, etc.
3.Installing WordPress
We are almost going through techy stuff, We promise!
We can get many different blogging platforms but we and everyone like WordPress the best. It is free and everyone can learn it easily and it offers a wide variety of themes and has many tutorials and communities on google.
To know how to install and get started with it read the instructions for installing WordPress on your new blog here. After you completely read it you can officially log into your blog and design it as per your requirement.
4.How to set your site in maintenance mode?
While working on your blogs you might want to put your site on maintenance mode. Maybe you don’t wanna show your visitors to look unfinished and ugly.
(You may think to complete the site tomorrow or the next day and make it look more professional.)
To get into maintenance mode you need to install the plugin which will keep your site not reaching visitors for a certain time and make it under maintenance mode. Click here to install the plugin and activate it on your blog.
5.Choosing a theme for your blogs, Blogging on WordPress
Now one of the interesting parts came i.e choosing a theme for your blog. Now your theme determines what kind of blogs you’re going to make. And you can get unlimited free and premium themes. In starting I recommended you to use free themes and after getting success in blogging you can buy a premium theme.
Many of the Bloggers Use genesis, Elegant themes, Blocksy themes, etc. You can use elementor to design it more pretty. All of these themes come with full support and customization.
The best option is that you can choose the theme according to your wants with full of services and options as your requirements, In that way, your website looks more professional and eye-catching to everyone. In that case, visitors will come to see your latest post or may hire you in some writing projects.
whichever you choose the theme but make sure that the theme should be responsive means which should be automatically adjustable in any device which will get a positive response from google SEO and visitors.
6.Creating a header for your Blogging on WordPress
I think it’s difficult to design a custom header for your blog!
Don’t worry about creating a header you can hire a professional graphic designer for creating your header for your blog. You can go to Fiverr, Upwork, or others freelancing websites that offer graphic designing works for only $5.
7.Pages for your blog (Required)
After Designing a website and header now you are about to think about pages right but don’t worry I’m with you!
Now you can go to your WordPress dashboard and create a page like:-
About us
On this page, you should write about yourself and how you get started on blogging many more about yourself to get involved in this field. Makes this page look more professional and eye-catching because many visitors want to know your bio.
Contact us
Now, this is one of the main things you should add to your website. if you don’t know how to create a contact us page, look in youtube or simply you can get a plugin named contact form you can install and add it in your site and simply paste the shot code in that page and you will get a form in which users can contact you.
Privacy policy and disclaimer
This is the page you should add to your site about the rules and policies about the sites
It will help you in getting Google AdSense on your website and help in SEO too. You can
Generate the privacy policy or disclaimer from the different websites which instantly
Provide you a full page of disclaimer.
8.Install plugins in your Blogging on WordPress
To add the different functions to our site we need to install some of the plugins which will make our website reliable, secure, and looks more professional. We need to add some of the important plugins per your requirements from the plugins section for free and paid. (for e,g:- If you want to add the social icons you need plugins, and like newsletters, etc).
9.Installing widgets in your WordPress blogging
Now you should add widgets like in the sidebar, footer and make it more awesome like adding Recent posts, Popular posts, and many more as per your requirements.
10.Promoting your site and SEO
After fully completing your site we need to do the SEO of your site for reaching out to people and sharing your blogs on social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, youtube, and so on.
All over the world there are many bloggers and has millions of websites all are struggling to get success with their new ideas and techniques so it needs patience and hard work to get succeed.
So, To create a blog for free then you can simply do with the Blogspot in the beginning then you can go with your own domain and hosting. Blogspot provides you unlimited storage and .blogspot.com sub-domain for you. You can learn with it.
You can go with the free themes at first. Then after you start to earn you can purchase the best theme from the Envato market. Here are some of the popular free themes like Astra, Ocean wp, Hestia, and so on.
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